Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-26

Sugar For Nothing.
III. English weekly newspaper It'd
Bits, lately offered Il prize for the best
littlo story ~ the Scotch brogue. Fol-
lowing is the sketch TO which the
premium was awarded:
Last Saturday Betty and mo were DOT
getting our provisions, and in gazing
alang a street in the Sooth Side, Betty
grippit me BY the arm, and pointing
tae Il shop window, says, "Gutl keep
US, Jcems! dye see that? Sugar for
nacthingI' ''Eh.what's thatf' / a
getting 0ot my specs. That's extra
ornar; trade must be duh atwccl when
the've tac gle ava the yudcs for nae
thing. My certy, it q new gemm
this. Puir bodies, he,, Gun they afford
a that gas and 4 biz rent? Betty" /
cries, eye ken I've ircycr grudged the
pay s fair price for onything | buy; but
whor folks offer &c Il thing for nae
thinT wild be staUnin' in nay Elm LIGHT
if jdidna tax it. Gle me the basket
aed I'll 20 in and get eight pun, and
after come o"t We can slip in and @ct
anither eight pun; it'll ma look So
greedy like. Ji,t wait Il Wee And
IN | goes. ''l7n tax eight pun O that
Isugar!' Say>i. "Certainly, sir" Put
ting it in the basket, | shut doom the id
and turned.
Hey" crics the lad ut the back o
the coontcr, 'lc'ye forgot the tea!
There's two pun o tea gocs alangwi'
that!''
Save Us, tea!-tea did We say?
Great crifbens, this bates all? Tea
Certainly III take the tea" andG held
mp the lid . the basket and he popped
in a package o tea, IA ready made up.
| thocht il was vera fortunate ] had
seen the shop before the uneu ploycd
got word o it, or they wild a haen it a
rookit oet aforc | got ncar IL
''ls there naethin' clSc-cCffee, or
onything2"
MOI he says; ''it's just tho tea and
sugar % t~hegithcr."
.'Woel, I'm sure we ochS tae be
thankful for that same; althG' if there
wis "A bh pun o coffee | widnG object.
Wecl, gaIid day tae We! guild day!' and
! cam %ot. He jumpit owertac coont-
er, and grippit me at the door, and
shookue, and says, The money, sir!''
"Money.' says j, perfectly dunn
foun1e1nd, aye nc'cr said Their wis ony
money but its no owcr late Sat! Hoo
muck aue We gle? Yc're a perfect an
| gel ia taac bad times, Hope hc mon
1 ry's IA spurious"
"fc tae gle me tbt mcley,' he
says "Me," | says, money for
WHAT For the tea" NE say. did
We n@ e ' it went alang ai' the su~ar?''
Certainly" land didna Nc. say We
gic<3 t,, sugar for naethin'?' Yes
And what's the money for, then?''
For 1l~ tea" he says, @atting angry.
"Nao, ! ok here" | says. pulling him
intSc q dose . O the .crood. let us
undrzatou' each othel Vac ~ rim OF
the hgianing, did We ho sac y, ~icd
sugar in nacthim'?" Wv, DO. -, Wccl,
So faar,,.o good; We giedsnie my sugar
for n@oti7n', and when ] wis coming
sot We o,aad after ne tha' yc 81 Il tea
;Larrr WI the sugar"
BAT = re tao pay fGanho tea,
..1-at,umt. will | h&c tca. begin [. gains
Moo, lael here AMI Ny attention.
Dfnna. Va "a me back when | wa gaut
oot w,b enough pleased vi the sugar,
and mo- rs in for tex. ana said W gied
tea al gns 81 the sIi@GrF'
II Il id
"Wcsl and hadna " 4ien mc the
ORR 1thing?"
n h, vi
"Weoi and what hse yoslac sac for
,ourscI'. Ell It. 40 re worth OF
min We: DID I'm II" = 1nai to be adc
D. tulc OF I Ia .ocycr, lh.re,s my carl
pc can 81 rMlson me, bot Ism think NJ
yen get uh war~t OF. No, ma. |
b, vi Yesterday. tho hi
there wis @D~ iuckr -pocN y ABBOTT it.
W =, IrttN, heIga' Do" caur."